The Supreme People's Procuratorate announcement comes just a day after a State Council investigation team confirmed the landslide is being probed as a work safety incident, not a geological disaster. The massive pile that poured down to the industria...
Tsinghua University released the initial investigation results provided by Haidian Public Security Bureau a few days ago, which revealed that a hydrogen cylinder exploded accidentally, and the whole lab then caught fire. Meng Xiangjian died as the re...
Official figures from the Ministry of Transportation show emissions from car exhaust account for 31 percent of the country's total air pollution. In an effort to bring that figure down, the central government has been supporting a series of subsidies...
Investigators from the State Council's office say they've decided the massive collapse of construction waste is not going to be deemed a geological phenomenon. Instead, it's being looked at as a work safety issue, meaning officials are most likely go...
Multinational firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.D. Power and WPP, have spent thousands of dollars installing air filtration systems and real-time monitoring devices. These are booming times for the clean air industry. Louie Cheng, Chief Exec...
Sitting on top of the Quelccava Ica Cap in the Andes, a satellite-linked weather station has been helping scientists to understand the El Nino effect. The station was developed by the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The El Nino effect is the...
According to the law as it stands, citizens of late marriage and late childbirth can have an extension of their marriage and maternity leave. That means besides the due marriage leave, men over 25 years old and women over 23 enjoy a bonus leave of 10...
The new round of inspections follow checks that were made earlier this month, in which inspectors found several factories emitting large amounts of pollutants in the city of Xinxiang, during the air pollution alert period. This time, the inspectors f...
China has set a target of increasing its proportion of non-fossil energy to 20 percent of total energy consumption by 2030. China's Special Representative on Climate Change at the Paris conference Xie Zhenghua says, to achieve that goal, China is see...
That was Victor Gao, Chairman of China energy security Institute, speaking with CRI's Zhan Yang....
A new alcohol-detection device called the Breeze made by Breathometer Inc. from the U.S. has been produced to help reduce the number of drink-driving cases which have already claimed many drivers' lives. Brian Sturdivant, Vice President of Marketing...
Zhang Hengde is a forecaster with the National Meteorological Center. The highest level can be expected on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Heavy smog will be seen in central and south Beijing, central and west Tianjin, central and north Hebei, north S...
In an attempt to focus more on urban problems and ways to solve them, this year's Urban Development Confrence in Beijing has shifted its focus away from infrastructure constrcution toward proper urban development. Those at the event say this is the f...
Experts from China's top-think tank say the world economy has entered a new stage, but the economic re-adjustment currently taking place poses new challenges. Jin Bei, a senior researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says global cooper...
The 2010 IMF reforms expanded the voting power of China, India, Russia and Brazil. Those who agreed to give up some voting share included the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Africa, though several European countries gave up the largest share. A...
